Hi is Fedora for spark system as good as it is for x86. which linux distro/other os is easy to install on spark system and friendly to use. if someone works on them please contact me, having problems running spark system. thanks sps
On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 22:05, Sumeet Pal Singh wrote:
Hi is Fedora for spark system as good as it is for x86. which linux distro/other os is easy to install on spark system and friendly to use. if someone works on them please contact me, having problems running spark system. thanks sps
Solaris 10 would be the best OS for a sparc system. You can also run Solaris 10 ono x86 systems. Available at no cost now as well.
On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 22:36 -0500, Scot L. Harris wrote:
On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 22:05, Sumeet Pal Singh wrote:
Hi is Fedora for spark system as good as it is for x86. which linux distro/other os is easy to install on spark system and friendly to use. if someone works on them please contact me, having problems running spark system. thanks sps
Solaris 10 would be the best OS for a sparc system. You can also run Solaris 10 ono x86 systems. Available at no cost now as well.
Scot L. Harris wrote:
On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 22:05, Sumeet Pal Singh wrote:
Hi is Fedora for spark system as good as it is for x86. which linux distro/other os is easy to install on spark system and friendly to use. if someone works on them please contact me, having problems running spark system. thanks sps
Solaris 10 would be the best OS for a sparc system. You can also run Solaris 10 ono x86 systems. Available at no cost now as well.
or if your disk isn't big enough for Solaris, try Debian. If it's really old (I have a luncbox here, and you didn't say "ultra" or "54") and I installed RHL 6.2 on that.
Not wanting to start anything here but.. wouldn't sparc be much more useful (wanted, widespread) than ia64? ;)
On Fri, 2005-12-02 at 12:32 +0800, John Summerfied wrote:
Scot L. Harris wrote:
On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 22:05, Sumeet Pal Singh wrote:
Hi is Fedora for spark system as good as it is for x86. which linux distro/other os is easy to install on spark system and friendly to use. if someone works on them please contact me, having problems running spark system. thanks sps
Solaris 10 would be the best OS for a sparc system. You can also run Solaris 10 ono x86 systems. Available at no cost now as well.
or if your disk isn't big enough for Solaris, try Debian. If it's really old (I have a luncbox here, and you didn't say "ultra" or "54") and I installed RHL 6.2 on that.
Naoki wrote:
Not wanting to start anything here but.. wouldn't sparc be much more useful (wanted, widespread) than ia64? ;)
Ultrasparc is 64-bit Sparc from Sun Sparc64 is similar, from Fujitsu. TI is in there somewhere too, but I think only as a CPU & chipset manufacturer.
"sparc" generally means 32-bit CPUs. They're faily old.
Ahh symantics :)
Nobody has used 32-bit chips for about a decade so it's pretty safe to assume I mean 64-bit.
The new T1 CPUs would be a preferred platform over IA64 I'm sure?!
On Fri, 2005-12-02 at 12:57 +0800, John Summerfied wrote:
Naoki wrote:
Not wanting to start anything here but.. wouldn't sparc be much more useful (wanted, widespread) than ia64? ;)
Ultrasparc is 64-bit Sparc from Sun Sparc64 is similar, from Fujitsu. TI is in there somewhere too, but I think only as a CPU & chipset manufacturer.
"sparc" generally means 32-bit CPUs. They're faily old.
Naoki wrote:
Not wanting to start anything here but.. wouldn't sparc be much more useful (wanted, widespread) than ia64? ;)
I suspect that the reason is finance...
I know Intel put a lot of money into ensuring IA64 software was available and working well. I strongly suspect that Intel made it worth-while for Red Hat to support RHEL on Itanium. (It's not unusual: Windows NT 4 came on a CD with software for four processor families: x86, PowerPC, Alpha and MIPS. All but x86 were dropped during the lifespan of NT 4 when the owners of the chips stopped paying for the support).
Clearly, if Intel and Red Hat have any agreement, it hasn't stopped Red Hat from supporting Opteron or Power (or IBM's mainframes). But it has kept the Itanium port alive. (I'd be surprised if IBM weren't helping Red Hat with the S390 port).
I very much doubt that Solaris-loving Sun would want to fund Linux on *Sparc, and I doubt that there are enough people who'd want to run RHEL on *Sparc to provide enough revenue from sales. (These days, if you want *Sparc, it's probably because you want to run Solaris-on-*Sparc, or for embedded purposes).
Last I checked, both Fedora and RHEL were forked from the same Red Hat "Rawhide" development tree.
James.
On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 23:32, John Summerfied wrote:
Scot L. Harris wrote:
On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 22:05, Sumeet Pal Singh wrote:
Hi is Fedora for spark system as good as it is for x86. which linux distro/other os is easy to install on spark system and friendly to use. if someone works on them please contact me, having problems running spark system. thanks sps
Solaris 10 would be the best OS for a sparc system. You can also run Solaris 10 ono x86 systems. Available at no cost now as well.
or if your disk isn't big enough for Solaris, try Debian. If it's really old (I have a luncbox here, and you didn't say "ultra" or "54") and I installed RHL 6.2 on that.
A number of years ago I loaded RH 4.2 on an old Sun box, I think it was an LX? Not sure if that is the correct designation or not. Ran it for a couple of years. Still have the CDs for it. But that Sun box is long gone.
Solaris 10 has some really nice features. Have been considering setting up a box or two with that sometime in the near future.
is Fedora for spark system as good as it is for x86. which linux distro/other os is easy to install on spark system and friendly to use. if someone works on them please contact me, having problems running spark system. thanks sps
I think you could use Nexenta. Its the OpenSolaris 10 kernel with debian packages. I'm not too sure, but I think there is a UltraSparc Version.
Regards, Thomas
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